I live in England and hear this all the time. "I lent a pen from Paul". No you borrowed a pen, Paul lent you a pen. Arrgghh! Or people seem to think its proper to say "I". As in,"I and Nick were there."If you would say me singular, then it is still me plural. And the misuse of then/than. I'd rather eat peas than sleep in a ditch, verses I'd rather eat peas then sleep in a ditch!

Per the bolded: I heard something similar when I lived in the south (USA). It was common to hear people say, "Can you borrow me....." Drove me batty!

I haven't seen this one mentioned yet. E-hellions, do you own a bedroom suite or a bedroom suit? Likewise, do you have a suite of furniture in your living room, or just a plain ol' suit of furniture.

Drove me nuts when I moved to this area (west-central Ohio) and kept hearing all of the commercials from furniture stores advertising bedroom "suits". And living room suits. Not the correct pronunciation, which is like "sweet". I keep wanting to go to the stores and ask them why I need to have a special set of clothes (a suit) made for my bedroom.

I grew up in MI, and that was pretty common. Maybe it's a midwestern thing? (FTR, I don't use that)

So, apparently there was a meteor or something that buzzed over our city this morning. The local news station posted on Facebook, asking who had noticed it.It's a sad commentary on my city that a good 40 percent of the comments included the words, "I seen.."

I live in England and hear this all the time. "I lent a pen from Paul". No you borrowed a pen, Paul lent you a pen. Arrgghh! Or people seem to think its proper to say "I". As in,"I and Nick were there."If you would say me singular, then it is still me plural. And the misuse of then/than. I'd rather eat peas than sleep in a ditch, verses I'd rather eat peas then sleep in a ditch!

Per the bolded: I heard something similar when I lived in the south (USA). It was common to hear people say, "Can you borrow me....." Drove me batty!

I've heard "Can you learn me?" for "can you teach me?" in some parts of the South.

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Meditate. Live purely. Quiet the mind. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ---Gautama Buddah

I live in England and hear this all the time. "I lent a pen from Paul". No you borrowed a pen, Paul lent you a pen. Arrgghh! Or people seem to think its proper to say "I". As in,"I and Nick were there."If you would say me singular, then it is still me plural. And the misuse of then/than. I'd rather eat peas than sleep in a ditch, verses I'd rather eat peas then sleep in a ditch!

Per the bolded: I heard something similar when I lived in the south (USA). It was common to hear people say, "Can you borrow me....." Drove me batty!

I've heard "Can you learn me?" for "can you teach me?" in some parts of the South.

I heard those, too. I had been an English major, so you can imagine what that did to me!

The bandage was wound around the wound.The farm was used to produceproduce.A bass fish was painted on a bass drum.I did not object to the object.The farmer taught his talented sow to sow.After a number of injections my jaw got number.They were too close to close the door.Does he see the does?The dovedove into the tree.

The bandage was wound around the wound.The farm was used to produceproduce.A bass fish was painted on a bass drum.I did not object to the object.The farmer taught his talented sow to sow.After a number of injections my jaw got number.They were too close to close the door.Does he see the does?The dovedove into the tree.

etc.

I feel that you'd enjoy cryptic crosswords -- which if I have things rightly, are basically a British thing -- crosswords in North America revolve around essentially "factual" q & a. Cryptic crosswords rely heavily on heterographs, for their clues.

(In the UK, your last example wouldn't work -- over here, it would have "dived" into the tree.)

Is that pronounced 'reed' or 'red'? The pronounciation depends entirely upon the tense. Out of context, there's no way to know how you should pronounce it.

Another one:

TEAR

Is it a drop of water from the eye, or an action pulling things apart?

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My cousin's memoir of love and loneliness while raising a child with multiple disabilities will be out on Amazon soon! Know the Night, by Maria Mutch, has been called "full of hope, light, and companionship for surviving the small hours of the night."

I've made a spelling mistake in something I've posted to Facebook - and I can't edit it. It hurts every time I see it.

Facebook is going to be rolling out the ability to edit statuses. In order to keep people from posting "I love kitties!" and then, after garnering tons of "likes", editing it to say "I kick puppies" the status will show "has been edited" and people can click to see the previous tpyos.

Which is great because there's nothing like posting, enjoying the "likes" and chatting with friends only to notice hours later a glaring typo, missing capitalization or even missing words.

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"I feel sarcasm is the lowest form of wit." "It is so low, in fact, that Miss Manners feels sure you would not want to resort to it yourself, even in your own defense. We do not believe in retaliatory rudeness." Judith Martin